Joe Atom

It sounds suspiciously like Old Megadeth. I like it!

What's the deal then? It says on the official site that Megadeth disbanded two years ago, and there's nothing about the new song apart from the fact that it's there for download?

Didn't he inadvertently go ginger last time he tried to bleach it? Oops, sorry for dragging that one out again Rass... made you look like a proper Scotsman though

I bought the Helloween best of, and with the exception of Halford's Ressurection it is the single worst purchase I have ever made in my life. Apart from their cover of Priest's Electric Eye which is all good.

Lauch is already all sorted I'm afraid... would have been fun though!

I would call them power metal. But it's probably better than Helloween

Dude, dye it brown... it's been so long since it was natural colour that it'd be a real novelty to see it again!

Well, thanks very much... I really hope you dudes are gonna like the new album. It's a bit more progressive (gulp!) but it will certainly be old-school! And there will certainly be many more rukkus gigs

Good job, cos there's none left now

But the new album will be better

Don't you hate it when you get yer new cds home and the plastic bits that hold the cd in place in the box are broken before the first time you even open the fucking box?! Bollocks.

I just bought the new Blaze album 'Blood and Belief'. Muchos Rock! I also bought the first Black Sabbath album. Legend.

Enough! This is NOT a power metal adoration thread, and if it's going to turn into one I will withdraw my official endorsement of it.

That's you told

Sorry, my bad! When are you playing then? You never know, I might venture out of the house at some point.

BTW it's a long time since I saw you at one of our gigs... I think that you too should perhaps venture along to see us... you might be impressed also

Might actually be a good idea... for some reason I just can't imagine you as a frontman... too used to seeing you on drums! To be honest I keep imagining you in your insurance salesman garb (salmon pink shirt, tie etc.) on stage...

I doubt you'll convince me that emo isn't nads though

Originally posted by Dan Atom:

Indeed that is true about emo.

But then again the ONLY vaguely emo album I own is funeral for a friend... who are MASSIVELY inspired by Iron Maiden anyway.

And European power metal? Guilty.

Though I don't have too much of that cos a lot of it shite. A little Helloween here, a bit of Nightwish there... but at least it is all inspired from Maiden.

Infact Maiden were the first power metal band...

Hang your head in shame... Funeral For a Friend may be slightly inspired by Maiden but... oops... they're shite! All that screaming then poncing about going "look at me, I'm all sensitive!" You'd nae catch Maiden doing that.

And everyone always says to me, oh you love Iron Maiden, you'll love Helloween / Stratovarius / Gamma Ray / insert another shite power metal band here. And I don't it's all a bunch of pish with overdone vocals and harmonies on everything all the time and an annoying double kick drum going on all the time! It's a lot of pish!

I think the key here is that there is a difference between doing something well and overdoing something. Iron Maiden fall on the right side of that line, Nightwish, however, definitely fall on the wrong side

No Scorgie! Not Powerslave... Somewhere In Time! We're al crying out for it! You're just scared, that's what it is. You don't think you can handle Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner. Well, face the beast! Come on!

Originally posted by Bob Double Jack:

But we didn't do the slow bit in the middle.

We can't afford a smoke machine nor a lowering lighting rig.

We've played the Trooper without a monitor to put your foot on... but it doesn't feel right

Well, I don't care, I still like No Prayer For the Dying. So ner ner nee ner ner.

Originally posted by Dan Atom:

Jeez, you guys are admitting this stuff?

we're meant to be a metal band... not a see-who-likes-to-admit-to-being-a-man-bummer band!

I'm glad my music taste has no blemmishes whatsoever.

Apart from all that power-metal European shite And the Emo Face it, Emo is written BY man-bummers FOR man-bummers.

Originally posted by Len Atom:

Just because he isn't blaring through a million watts of amplification doesn't make him lame. Some of the most powerful things are said quietly, you know.

You don't need to tell me this!! You're talking to a dedicated proclaimers fan remember? I just don't like James Taylor, that's all...

Originally posted by Ben Quik:

haha my age gives me such power over the atom tykes....thye hate it when i say that i got into maiden when i was very young with teh powerslave album...

*walks out of forum smugly*

You won't be so smug when I pop yer colostomy bag and you slip in a puddle of yer own wee you old bastard... hang on, you're on my side... you may pass unhindered.

Yup, it was. And it really isn't that bad! Len's one to go on about bad taste, with his prog nonsense and James Taylor fetish... I'd take No Prayer over anything with shitey keyboards and James Lecheese...

Nae prabs min, as long as you give us the 4 then it's all good.

Or right feckin' here! There is nothing wrong with No Prayer for the Dying, and I can't understand why everyone hates it so much! Yes, the Assassin is fairly lame... and the production isn't great... but it's got some ace songs! Fates Warning, one of Davey's most underrated moments, and Mother Russia, which would fit in ok some of the earlier 'classic' albums...

BTW Doc, Back in the Village is ace too... Powerslave doesn't have a duffer on it.

Good job, because the last copy has now been booked. So there are no more!! Alas, it was fun while it lasted, but we must look forward to 'The Tie That Binds'!

Aye min. Pure sucks a long 'un.

Mainly because it's not worth anything In fact it's probably worth minus money, i.e. we give you money to take it away, and more money to actually listen to it. Rubbish!